[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12728]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          GOD IS WHAT WE NEED

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                             HON. BOB BARR

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, June 14, 1999

  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, this poem was written by Darrell 
Scott, the father of two victims of the Columbine High School Shooting 
in Littleton, Colorado:


     Your laws ignore our deepest needs
     Your Words are empty air
     You've stripped away our heritage
     You've outlawed simple prayer

     Now gunshots fill our classrooms
     And precious children die
     You seek for answers everywhere
     And ask the question ``Why''?

     You regulate restrictive laws
     Through legislative creed
     And yet you fail to understand
     That God is what we need!

     

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